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Exploring extracurriculars at the Fall Student Activities Fair
For the first time Penn’s annual Fall Student Activities Fair was both in person and online over a three-day period. Nearly 600 groups registered to participate this year, and thousands of students signed up for organizations.
Field hockey team to take field for first time since 2019
The Quakers open their season today at noon against No. 5-ranked Louisville in Princeton, New Jersey, as part of the ACC/Ivy League Conference Crossover.
Coding the emotions that anti-tobacco ads evoke
Sophomore Oulaya Louaddi and junior Gabriela Montes de Oca interned this summer with Annenberg’s Andy Tan, helping the research team design and test culturally appropriate anti-smoking campaigns for young women who identify as sexual minorities.
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Ensuring a safe learning, research, and working environment on campus
Penn Today provides information on current public health guidelines and measures in place around ventilation, filtration, and housekeeping to promote a safe and healthy fall semester.
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Feeling ‘rejuvenated’ on campus, students celebrate Convocation
Penn’s newest students gathered on College Green on Monday, Aug. 30, to kick off the University’s 282nd year.
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Harun Küçük brings science, philosophy, and history to the Middle East Center
The newly appointed faculty director says his aim “first and foremost is to maintain all the good things that the Center’s already doing.”
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Interact, adapt, repeat: A summer studying coevolution
Sophomores Linda Wu and Nova Meng spent the summer studying coevolution among plants, mutualistic bacteria, and parasitic nematodes in Corlett Wood’s biology lab.
Katherine Unger Baillie ・
A joyous Move-In at Penn
Moving onto campus for the first time, students share what they are most looking forward to in the year ahead, while their family members beam with pride.
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Student ambassadors ready to welcome new arrivals during Move-In
Ready to welcome new arrivals to campus, 25 student coordinators are working as paid staff during Move-In to College Houses this coming week.
Artist and professor David Hartt is ‘of the moment’
This year alone four museums and two galleries are featuring work by artist David Hartt of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, including currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.